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Oh Bloomsbury, What the Dickens! In this episode, we stagger stylishly through Bloomsbury’s backstreets. We visit The Lamb on Conduit Street - named for a 16th-century philanthropist who brought clean water to Londoners, once a watering hole for Charles Dickens and the infamous Bloomsbury Group. Then it’s off to The Queen’s Larder, where Queen Charlotte stashed snacks for a very troubled King George III. It’s a tale of poets, pints, madness, love, and peculiar Victorian features like snob screens and secret cellars. 

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Google map with pubs covered in previous episodes pinned, courtesy of Andy Meddick:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/4/edit?mid=12c-WKa3XiT1qTLydK8psZocUR7Y_Wes&usp=sharing

Or TinyURL: https://tinyurl.com/bduca5dv

The following resources are quoted frequently in these episodes:

• Ted Bruning  -- Historic Pubs of London (ISBN 978-0658005022) and London By Pub (ISBN 978-0658005022)
• Wikipedia
• https://londonspubswherehistoryreallyhappened.wordpress.com/  by Ann Laffeaty

Intro music:

Vivaldi - Spring Allegro byJohn Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber

Photo: Ewan Munro 

Website: https://historiclondonpubcast.com/

E-mail: [email protected]